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one of the things I don't like about the NFL is how easy it is to cut players.
I would like to see some type of restricted free agency or giving teams a better chance at resigning their own free agents. I like it when players can play for one team. guys like Chipper Jones, who played his entire career with Atlanta. I wish there were more situations like that.
if you gave teams a better chance at resigning their own free agents, they could have a better chance at competing.

one of the things I don't like about the NFL is how easy it is to cut players.
I would like to see some type of restricted free agency or giving teams a better chance at resigning their own free agents. I like it when players can play for one team. guys like Chipper Jones, who played his entire career with Atlanta. I wish there were more situations like that.
if you gave teams a better chance at resigning their own free agents, they could have a better chance at competing.

One thing I have always wanted to see is a Franchise or Transition Tag that pays a player a guaranteed 1 year contract of the top-10 or 15 players in MLB at their respective position. The player can choose to sign an extension, sign the one year tender, or sign with someone else with which the original team has 7 days to match. If they do, the player stays with the original team. If the original team doesn't match, then the two teams work on a compensation package of players or prospects.

one of the things I don't like about the NFL is how easy it is to cut players.I would like to see some type of restricted free agency or giving teams a better chance at resigning their own free agents. I like it when players can play for one team. guys like Chipper Jones, who played his entire career with Atlanta. I wish there were more situations like that.
if you gave teams a better chance at resigning their own free agents, they could have a better chance at competing.

I consider it a problem when you can almost make it a lock that the Yankees will make the post season no matter what. what are the numbers, 17 of the last 18 years? and what happened after the year they didn't make the playoffs? they went out and threw so much money to bring in free agents. IMO that is ridiculous.

I'm not really sure what you're getting at.
I'm sure there are always going to be players willing to sign with their previous team for whatever reason, whether they take a home town discount or they don't want to move. but there are also many players leaving to join new teams, and before players become free agents many teams trading soon to be free agent players. most of the time free agents sign with a new team based on money rather than specifically where they want to play. this is also something that bothers me. how free agents most of the time (not always) seem to sign with the team that is willing to give them the most money, as if it's all about the money.

according to baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots these are the Yankees payroll numbers since 2000.

It's ridiculous to think the MLB has more parity than the NFL. Unless you're completely biased towards MLB, any objective person could see how quickly and how often the competitive balance changes in football.

It's ridiculous to think the MLB has more parity than the NFL. Unless you're completely biased towards MLB, any objective person could see how quickly and how often the competitive balance changes in football.

And yet, the best teams are still, consistently the best teams, and the worst teams are still, consistently the worst teams.

Wait, so you argue that the MLB has more parity... And then concede the NFL has more? Oh, okay. I'm not saying a salary cap would or wouldn't improve parity in the MLB. I'm just saying the NFL has more parity, because it's a fact.

Regardless, winning percentage is a terrible measurement for proving anything about parity between the sports when it's 162 games vs. 16.

it's ridiculous to think the mlb has more parity than the nfl. Unless you're completely biased towards mlb, any objective person could see how quickly and how often the competitive balance changes in football.

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A message to Lebron haters

Originally Posted by ManRamForPrez24

I wasted too much of my time rooting against other superstars, and started the LeBron era hating him too. I'm glad I got over this, because I think he is unlike anything the game has ever seen...and to be robbed of enjoying that because I hate his greatness would be awful.